Evening Tech Mania - tech
(hx) 02:27 AM CEST - Sep,17 2003
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- New ssh exploit! - The systems in question are FreeBSD, RedHat,
Gentoo, and Debian all running the latest versions of OpenSSH. The attack
makes an
enormous amount of ssh connections (check
these threads too) and attempts various offsets until it finds one that
works permitting root login.
- Ballmer to crackers: this PC ain't big enough for the both of us -
The recent deluge of Internet worms and security
vulnerabilities affecting Windows will not affect Microsoft's ability to
"innovate", CEO Steve Ballmer pledged yesterday. Ballmer told an audience
at the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California, that "better security and
constant innovation go hand in hand". Essentially this was a message for the
markets- all these security problems are not going to slow our production of
newer, bigger, more expensive stuff. On the plus side, Ballmer acknowledged
that Blaster and the like are causing customers "pain" and that patching is a
problem. He said Microsoft felt "humbled by the events of the last few
weeks"....heh good one :)
- Off-topic: China nears first human space flight - A
month-long countdown to the launch of
China's first astronaut began on Monday, according to reports Unnamed
space program officials told the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po that the
historic flight would take place shortly after the week-long celebrations that
mark the anniversary of communist rule. These begin on 1 October. The exact
date will not be decided until about a week before the launch, the officials
said. They also disclosed that the Shenzhou spacecraft will carry a single
Chinese astronaut into space. The chosen "taikonaut" will be selected from a
group of three candidates shortly before launch.
- Off-topic: Sleep position gives personality clue - Scientists
believe
the
position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about
the kind of person they are. Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep
Assessment and Advisory Service, has analysed six common sleeping positions -
and found that each is linked to a particular personality type.
- Pentium 4 Extreme Edition -
The
Inquirer is reporting that during the IDF opening today Louis Burns from
Intel demonstrated a video showing a mysterious new desktop CPU. According to
Intel this new processor will be targeted at high-end gamers and computing
power users. They were not demonstrating the Prescott, but something
unheard-of, the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.20GHz! This appears to be a
3.2GHz Pentium 4 with an additional 2MB L3 cache memory. The Inquirer thinks
that these Extreme Editions will be repacked Intel XeonMP processors with a
Socket 478 housing instead of a Socket 603.
- Apple Revamps 15-Inch PowerBook -
The new 15-inch PowerBook tops out with a 1.25GHz G4 processor; 2GB 333MHz
DDR RAM max; SuperDrive (on the high-end model); lighted keyboard (high-end
model); FireWire 800 and 400; USB 2.0; Bluetooth; ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
(64MB DDR); 60GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive (80GB on the high-end model; and
Gigabit Ethernet. The low-end model is AirPort Extreme Ready, while the
high-end model has AirPort Extreme built in. The 1GHz model with a Combo drive
will cost $1999, while the 1.25GHz SuperDrive equipped model is $2599. Both
configurations are available immediately.
- Xerox Updates Color Laser Line - New are the Phaser 6250, a fast
color laser printer available in several configurations, and the monochrome
Phaser 3450. The 6250DT, which retails for $3399, is a desktop printer with
512MB of RAM standard and 600-sheet paper capacity. The 6250 series of
printers range in estimated retail price from $1999 to $3899, the same price
range as the four Phaser 6200 models. Through the end of September, however,
Xerox
is offering a $300 rebate on three of the four Phaser 6200 models to drop
the price below the predecessors; no rebate is offered for the basic 6200/B.
- Seagate spins 100GB platter - Seagate Technology on Tuesday said it
has pushed the data-density envelope in the disk-drive industry, announcing a
product that squeezes 100GB onto a single 3.5-inch platter. Seagate's new
product is part of its Barracuda 7200.7 family of drives. The drive has two
platters, for a total capacity of 200GB. It can use the more-traditional
parallel ATA interface or the newer serial ATA interface (SATA).
- NVIDIA Accelerates PCI Express Adoption - NVIDIA today
reaffirmed
support for the PCI Expresst architecture by announcing that the Company
is currently developing a complete family of next-generation desktop, mobile,
and workstation graphics processing units (GPUs) that are designed to take
advantage of the added bandwidth that the new I/O interconnection standard
delivers.
- Athlon 64 for desktops coming on Sept. 23 - AMD's best
chance to break into the business PC market
will begin on Sept. 23 when its 64-bit Athlon processor for desktops and
mobile PCs is scheduled for release. The chipmaker touts the key point that
its 64-bit architecture also runs 32-bit software, switching between both
platforms effortlessly, without any emulation layer.
- Graphics Boosters For OpenGL Workstations - THG has posted
a comparison between 4 ATI ProGL cards vs 4 Nvidia ProGL cards.
- Corsair TwinX1024-4000Pro DDR Memory Review -
Corsair's TwinX1024-4000Pro memory modules are easily the coolest looking
DIMM's on the market, bar none. Sure there have been other companies to
incorporate LED's on a stick of memory, but Corsair have taken this to the
next level.
- IsoBuster Pro 1.5 Beta9 -
IsoBuster (download
~
changelog) is a CD/DVD and (Disk)Image File data recovery tool, that can
read and extract files, tracks and sessions from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM,
CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD and others. It also supports the following image file
formats: *.DAO (Duplicator), *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead,
Creator), *.BIN (CDRWin), *.IMG (CloneCD), *.CIF (Creator), *.FCD
(Uncompressed), *.NRG (Nero), *.GCD (Prassi), *.P01 (Toast), *.C2D (WinOnCD),
*.CUE (CDRWin), *.CIF (DiscJuggler), *.CD (CD-i OptImage) and *.GI (Prassi
PrimoDVD).
- XPlite and 2000lite Professional v1.0 GOLD -
XPlite and
2000lite are powerful configuration utilities for Windows creating a
modular Windows operating system where YOU are in control.
- XMPEG 5.02 -
This
program decodes MPEG1 (Audio & Video) and MPEG2 streams and offers you the
possibillity to re-encode them in the format you want. Actual evolutions makes
Xmpeg faster, more stable, and offers more options.
- kX Project Drivers 5.00.3534f -
The kX Audio
Driver package includes driver system files and setup files as well as a
powerful audio mixer application (the kX Mixer), which acts as a Graphical
User Interface, providing access to many of the driver's internal functions.
- Microsoft IntelliPoint & IntelliType v5.0 drivers - Microsoft have
released version 5 of their
IntelliPoint & IntelliType (Microsoft
IntelliPoint v5.0 /
Microsoft IntelliType v5.0), keyboard and mouse software. I don't
recommend to install these drivers much, seems the older version 4.1 is
better.
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